Method for use in lasting shoes



Dec. 7, 1948. P. E. BURBY 2,455,467

METHOD FOR USE IN LASTING SHOES Filed April 50, 1947 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 III f4m Dec. 7, 1948. P. E. BURBY 2,455,467

METHOD FOR USE. IN LAST'ING SHOES Filed April 50, 1947 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Dec. 7, 1948. P. E. BURBY 2,455,467

METHOD FOR USE IN LASTING SHOES Filed April 50, 1947 s Sheets-Sheet s Invenfor I Philip E.Burby I By his Attorney I fasten an end of a binder wire to a tack at one side of the shoe bottom and to apply the wire preliminarily against the upper around the toe adjacent to the wiping faces of the wipers. After the machine is again started the wipers are lifted slightly and are partially retracted lengthwise of the shoe and opened to enable the operator to pull the wire inwardly against the upstanding margin of the upper lying against the lip of the insole, after which they are again fully advanced and closed to press the wire against the upper and are moved downwardly to increase their pressure on the upper. The machine then comes again to a stop to permit the operator to fasten the wire to a tack at the other side of the shoe bottom and to sever the binder from the rest of the wire. In practicing the method of the present invention the operator uses, instead of wire, a strand b of elastic binder material, which may be rubber or other suitable material, as hereinbefore explained, and may be obtained from a reel; This strand of material will be of such thickness that when stretched it will hold the upper as required in the angle between the feather and the lip of the insole without interfering with the attachment of the welt to the shoe in the usual manner. The operator fastens an end portion of the elastic binder material to the shoe at one side of the shoe bottom in a manner hereinafter explained after the machine has come to a stop the first time, and after it has again been started he pulls the strand of material inwardly under the wipers and against the upstanding margin of the upper while stretching it lengthwise of the edge of the shoe bottom. When the machine has again come to a stop with the wipers in pressing and holding relation to the upper and the binder material, the operator fas-. tens the latter at the other side of the shoe bottom and severs the portion applied to the shoe from the rest of the material.

Further in accordance with the present invention the binder material is fastened to the shoe at the opposite sides of the shoe bottom by forcing portions of it in a stretched condition through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole in the form of loops and then releasing the loops to permit them to contract at the inner side of the lip, the increased thickness of the looped material by reason of such contraction anchoring the binder efiectively in place in its stretched condition. For thus fastening the binder material when the toe is lasted by the use, for example, of a lasting machine such as shown in the previously mentioned Letters Patent, there may be conveniently utilized the hand tool shown in Fig. 1. This tool includes a casing having integral therewith a handle l2 to assist the operator in positioning it first in a relation to the shoe such as illustrated in Fig. 1. Mounted to slide along guideways in the casing is a bar 14 an end portion of which is arranged to extend downwardly when the tool is positioned as in Fig. 1 and is provided at its lower end with projections l6 spaced from each other and arranged to engage the bottom face of the insole to determine the position of the tool heightwise of the shoe and in the operation of the tool also to engage the inner face of the lip a of the insole. Formed on the bar l4 are rack teeth 18 engaged by a pinion 20 rotatably mounted on a pin 22 in the casing l0, and also engaged by this pinion on its opposite side from the bar [4 are rack teeth 24 formed on an upraised central portion 26 of a slide 28 movable along guideway in the casing in parallel relation to the bar l4. Ex-

tending into the slide 28 from its left-hand end (Fig. 2) as far as its upraised portion is a recess 30. Supported on the top of the slide 28 is a shorter slide 32 having a recess 34 therein to clear the upraised portion of the slide 28. Extending downwardly from the left-hand end of the slide 32 into slots 36 in the sides of the slide 28 are two lugs 38 to limit relative movement of the two slides. Mounted in a socket in the slide 32 and engaged by the right-hand end of the upraised portion of the slide 28 is a compression spring 40. The purpose of the slide 32 is to clamp a portion of the binder material b against two spaced upwardly extending fingers 42 fast on the upper end of a rod 44 movably mounted in the casing I0. Such clamping action takes place upon movement of the slide 32 toward the right through the spring 40 by movement of the slide 28 in that direction. For imparting that movement to the slide 28 a handle 46 is pivotally mounted on a pin 48 in the casing 10 and has integral therewith a forked arm 50 extending upwardly into the recess in the slide 28 and provided with a pin 52 rotatably mounted therein. Extending through a hole in this pin is a rod 54 pivotally connected to lugs 56 on the slide 28. Mounted on the rod 54 between a shoulder on the rod and :a washer 58 engaging the pin 52 is a compression spring 60. It will thus be seen that upon movement of the handle 48 toward the handle l2 by one of the operator's hands in engagement with both handles the slide 28 is operated as described through the spring 60 and acts through the spring to move the slide 32 into clamping relation to the fingers 42. At the same time the pinion 20 acts on the bar M to press the projections 16 on the bar yieldingly against the inner face of the lip a on the insole. The arm also serves, by the same movement, to operate a needle 62 which engages the portion of the binder material bridging the space between the fingers 42 and forces the material in the form of a loop through the upstanding margin of the upper and thelip of the insole. The needle is secured at its outer end to a block 64 provided with a pin 66 which extends into slots 68 in the forks of the arm 50, and it extends through openings in the slides 28 and 32 With some clearance between it and the slide 28. The needle has a beveled end positioned initially as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to support the binder material placed upon it between the slide 32 and the fingers 42, and after the material has been clamped by the slide against the fingers further movement of the needle causes its beveled end to deflect upwardly the portion of the material engaged thereby,

which is prevented at that time by the fingers from moving with the needle. This portion of the elasticmaterial, upon further movement of the needle, snaps downwardly into a recess 10 extending transversely of the needle, as illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. 5. The needle thereafter carries the material along with it in the form of a loop through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole, at the same time stretching it by reason of the fact that portions thereof at the sides of the needle are clamped between the slide 32 and the fingers 42. In this operation the material may slip to some extent between the slide and the fingers in response to the pull of the needle thereon. The needle thus passes inwardly between the two projections [6 of the bar 14 which support the lip at its inner side against the thrusts of the needle and are pressed yieldingly outward against thelip through the action of the spring on the pinion 20. To facilitate the i dr-ci'ng'pf hinc lehindterl'ai thi qu'gh the upper and the iip the ireedie hes hiring it M3136:- Site sieeseroeves 12 (Fig. 5) iii which iiortiehsof the material are received.

Near the end of the operative m-oyement of the needle 62 the fingers '42 areinovd dow'iiwerdly to rele se the portions of the'bihder inateiial eieinpea between them end the slide 3?. For this purpose there is inlbiintdih the ieii -44 spin it exten ing through slots is in the :eesih iiien'd also thr ugh a short slot t formed iiiehe or a pelt-crank lever Q 'pivotal'li 'I'nonntedon e pin 82in the easing. The otherarm ofthisheIT- ei 'eink ievei is pive'te ify eoh eeiea to h link Mereyin-ea witli a 5101: 3 6 through which extends sp n 83 carried by the gri to. This pih idly airing the net until the needle'h'a's heeiiy eompleted its operative movement and theii gets through the link and the bell crank lever to'iinpert the dbwhw'e rd movement to the'ihci at. It will he understood that when the fingers 42' are thus iii-(Wed downwardly the stretched eriiehs of the hinder-material extending froin the fingers inwardly as far as th'e upstanding margin of the uppei eontraiet to their horinalconditi'oh After the operation of the needle the operator reieases the handle at "and permits the handle to be returned by a spring in positioned between -it and the other handle It. By the eetion of this spring, thereioie the needle is withdrawn from the shoe to its initia'l'pos'i'tion, and'th'esii'de 28 also is returned by ehge'geme t of the pin 52 with a Collar 92 fasten theme 54, the liinit of return movement or the handle '46 being deten inined by engagement of the pin 8'8 with the link at at one end er the slot as and b ehgage- 'I-neht or the pin M with the casing H! at the upper ends of the slots 16. A sprihg press a plunger 9'3 movable in'the easing and engaging the hell-crank lever 8'0 assists in the return of the rod H. To prevent the 16013 c fof' the binder ihetrial at the i'nn'e'r side of the lib of the ins'ele i-rofn being withdrawn by the return movebf the needle, there is provided a itairfiiig iheinber 96 s-l id'ably mo ted the i4 and having a hook-shaped lower end; pinextending from the bar into a slot IUZ in the member 96 prevents the in'ei'nbei' from thrning and determines the iii-nit of its movement one direction under the i'nfiuehee "or a sio'rihe m. When the needle 62 is rhoved inwardly it's beveled end engages thehook-shepe'd end 9861' the ber 9'6 and lifts the member against the resistance of the spring H34, after which the hookshaped end of the member enters a. Stet-ms (Fig; between two short flahg'es' I08 on the needle and then rides over the binder material and enters another slot HOin the needle within the loop of the binder materials As the needle is withdrawn, eurve'd edges of the flanges Hi8 first lift the portion of the loop engaged thereby, after which the hook=shaped end of the member 96 is engaged and lifted by a curved ca'm face] I-2 (Fig; 7) formed on the needle between theiianges, carrying the loop with it as shown in Fig. 8. The loopis thus retained by the hookshaped end of the member 96 as the needle is further withdrawn, after which it is disengaged fromthe loop as the operator withdraws the tool from the shoe. mitted to contract at the inner side of the lip, the increased thickness of the looped material clue to such contraction preventing withdrawal of the loop thereafter from the lip and the margin of the upper.

The loop thus released is perf6 "fihenranner'of reetieihe the methea wiihtiie assistance er the ahere des hea reel in the restme or the tee e'iidhi wen with snh es shown the :pretieiisi iheht he'd hetie s Pet-entwin new he eiieny summarized. the niachine has heme to a step the first tithe the w erehold e the uiepei the it e-ie between the feather the iln i the inset; in-" h'e mehhei iihistretea in l i-e. 6, t e beeater w thdraws-e suiiieieni; length at elastic binder meteriei from a seitehiy supported eel end thin the iii'eteiiai into the reeess the t ebetweeh theilhper and the wiper 2 at the extreme edeeoi the shee hotteni with enough re'ree tee use it to rem-sin temherh iir that pe'sitibh. oeeieter then pi-sees the bin erie'stehifig teei substantially the iihsitioh illnetietteq Pie. 1 the hiejeetiiiiis 16 or the her 14 resting eh thee-attain face his the ihseie at the-ieri-hehe side of the ense bottor'n, ehe positions the free endpoi'tionof hinder nierterm-'1 an the beveled end of the heedie estetween the fingers in end the slide e2, illustrated in Fig. 1-. when the "tool thus itiaiiy presented the ieieet oh's 1'6 new ei hie'y net ahtiienyehg'age the-iihthe jeie. Thereafter the operator swings the hahd-le teeterate the tool in the in a nnr e-lready described in detail, the rej-e'eiiehs is being pressed outwardiy against the he or the ii' so-le a-i'id hertioii's hr the binde materiel hemeeia-ihpeei y ieidihgiy ty the slide 32 against the t2. continued movement of the heme-1e censes thetree-die to 'eonheet with the iieitien (if the binder materiel bridging the seeee between the nheeis I 2 and th harry the materiel with it in rerm er a 166i) thieueh the margin er the uheei ehe 'lipe'f the insole while sit the seine 't iine s i'ehine it, es illustrated ih Fig. '6-. In this bperatibn the retaining ihehihei 9's rides ever the hinder t'er-l al to e iaositidn where its hoeke'd end 98 within the wet, es iiiuhiretedih his. 'le-nd es eireees in eeseiieed. Near the ehe bf the meveiireht er the eeare the iihg'eis s2 sieved downwardly to release the elahibed leoi'tieiis of the material. Thereafter the operator releases the handle 46 to permit it to be returned his? the spring and thereby to return the epeietihg parts of the "tool to their fil'ifiQQ-l Dbsitins. the

return of the needle the retaining 'rn'riibei 9B is forced upwardly, as shown in 8, ear Wing the 10013 with it, this member preventing the loop from being withdrawn-from "the lip of the insole and the hiai g'ih'of the 'ilppei es the-needle is'wit-hdr'awh.

After having thus fastened the binder material at one side of the shoe bottom, the operator preferably det'aelres the meteriei extending around the toe from the recess betweeh the wipers and the upper and then epplies a pun to the material at the ri'ght hand side 'of the sho'e to stretch it and to draw it more tightly into the recess adjacent to the wipers. While holding the materielunder tension the operator thereafter starts the machine to cause the-wipers partially to retract and to relax their downward pressure on the upper and the'rebyto permit the binder material't'o be drawn inwardly under the wipers against the upstanding margin 'of the upper. 'As hereinbefore explained, the wipers arcathen again fully advanced and "closed" and are forced "downwardly eigainst the upper to hold it lasted-position and also to hold the binder material in its stretched condition age/instthe upper, After the-machine has again:eerneto a stop with the wipers inthese positions, the operator proceeds to fasten the binder material at the right-hand side of the shoe bottom in the same manner as previously at theleft-hand side, as illustrated in Fig. 9. In thus operating at the right-hand sidethe operator, in positioning the material on the beveled end of the needle between the fingers 42 and the slide 32, applies a pull thereto to stretch to some extent the portion of the material extending from the adjacent wiper 2 to the fingers 42. Accordingly, when the fingers are moved downwardly to release the clamped material near the end of the operative movement of the needle, the contraction of the portion of. the material extending beyond the wiper 2 will cause it to snap in against the upper, so that no objectionable loosening of the binder will take place when the wipers are withdrawn from the shoe. After thus fastening the binder material at the right-hand side of the shoe the operator severs the portion applied to the shoe from the rest of the material, cutting the material at such a point as to leave only a very short end thereof projecting from the margin of the upper. Preferably also he similarly trims the projecting end portion of the material at the lefthand side of the shoe.

It will be understood that the elastic binder applied and fastened to the shoe in the manner described serves effectively in its stretched condition to hold the upstanding margin of the upper with a constant force against the lip of the insole, any loosening of the binder being prevented by reason of the increase in thickness of the material forming the loops at the inner side of the lip after the loops have been forced inwardly in a stretched condition and released. It will further be evident that theelastic binder will not be in the way of the welt when the latter is applied to the shoe and will not interfere with the needle of the welt-sewing machine. The nature of the binder applied and fastened as described is, moreover, such that it need not be removed from the shoe, although obviously it may be removed if desired.

Novel features of the binder-fastening tool herein shown and described are claimed in a divisional application Serial No. 21,368, filed on April 16, 1948.

Having described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper on a last into lasted position, applying about the end of the upper an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the shoe to hold it in its stretched condition by forcing it through portions of the shoe materials at the, opposite sides of the shoe bottom.

2. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper on a last into lasted position with its margin in upstanding position over the shoe bottom, applying to the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the shoeto hold it in its stretched condition.

3. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relation to a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, applying to the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the lip at the opposite sides of the shoe bottom to hold it in its stretched condition.

4. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relation to a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, applying to the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the shoe at the opposite sides of the shoe bottom to hold it in its stretched condition by forcing portions of it inwardly through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole.

5. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relation to a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, applying too the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the shoe at the opposite sides of the shoe bottom by forcing portions of it in a stretched condition inwardly through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole and releasing them to permit them to resume their normal condition at the inner side of the lip.

6. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relation to a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, applying to the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom an upper-holding binder of elastic material in a stretched condition, and fastening the binder to the shoe at the opposite sides of the shoe bottom by forcing portions of it in the form of loops inwardly through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole in a stretched condition and releasing the loops to permit them to contract at the inner side of the lip.

7. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relation to a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, fastening a strand of elastic binder material to the shoe at one side of the shoe bottom by forcing a portion thereof in a stretched condition inwardly through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole andthen releasing it to permit it to contract at the inner side of the lip, and thereafter stretching the binder material lengthwise of the edge of the shoe bottom in engagement with the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom'and similarly fastening it to the shoe at the other side of the shoe bottom.

8. That improvement in methods of lasting shoes which consists in working an end portion of an upper into lasted relationto a last and an insole on the last with its margin in upstanding position against a lip on the insole, fastening a strand of elastic binder material to the shoe at one side of the shoe bottom by forcing a portion thereof in the form of a loop inwardly through the margin of the upper and the lip of the insole in a stretched condition and then releasing the loop'to permit it to contract at the inner'side, of the lip, and thereafter stretching th'e'binder ma- 9 terial lengthwise of the edge of the shoe bottom in engagement with the upstanding margin of the upper around the end of the shoe bottom and similarly fastening it to the shoe at the other side of the shoe bottom.

PHILIP E. BURBY.

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